Performance Car of the Year
For 2022 there are two awards: a Sports Car of the Year award, in this instance for cars priced up to $100,000, and a Performance Car of the Year award for the more expensive machinery.
Both of these awards are judged not against the cars gathered, but against the time-honoured PCOTY criteria of performance, dynamics, accessibility, liveability, value and X-factor.
MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: Eight contenders revealed
These are the eight heavy-hitting performance cars vying for the PCOTY title
MOTOR’s Sports Car of the Year 2022: 10 contenders revealed
The 10 best driver’s cars under $100k vying for MOTOR’s inaugural new performance competition
MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year is changing for 2022
This year sees PCOTY go large with a new award for more accessible cars
Performance Car of the Year 2021: the track test
Records are demolished in the fastest and most powerful PCOTY field ever
Performance Car of the Year 2021: the road test
The Victorian high country provides the 2021 PCOTY field with the perfect real-world test
All the crazy numbers from Performance Car of the Year 2021
PCOTY returns landmark numbers, geek out on all of it here
Ford Fiesta ST bounds into 4th at MOTOR’s 2021 PCOTY
Baby hot hatch grows into a giant killer
Porsche Cayman GTS 4.0 finishes 5th at PCOTY 2021
Dynamic brilliance hampered by long-legged ’box
Behind the scenes at MOTOR Performance Car of the Year 2021
Kirby gets his first PCOTY invite and spends the week wrangling walkie talkies. Cruel. We also made him keep notes
Audi R8 V10 Performance sings into 6th place at MOTOR’s 2021 PCOTY
Tried and true recipe delivers 10-cylinder main course
BMW’s M550i xDrive glides into 7th place at MOTOR’s 2021 PCOTY
M5 Competition’s understudy makes the grade
Toyota GR Yaris finishes 8th at MOTOR’s 2021 PCOTY
We so badly wanted to believe…
Audi’s RS6 wonder wagon finishes 9th at MOTOR’s 2021 PCOTY
Uber wagon shines in the real world, not on track
578kW Herrod SM17 Mustang makes for one ballistic PCOTY 10th place finisher
Power-packed pony is a bittersweet symphony
Here’s how close AMG came to winning PCOTY previously
This might be AMG’s first PCOTY victory, but the brand has a strong history in Australia’s fastest motoring award
Mercedes-AMG A45 S rounds out 2021 MOTOR PCOTY podium
Affalterbach redefines the hot hatch genre
2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S comes second at MOTOR’s 2021 PCOTY
Technically brilliant, but is there a spark missing?
Why the Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro won PCOTY
Or why Porsche didn’t win yet again
2021 Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro wins MOTOR 2021 Performance Car of the Year
After years of trying, Mercedes-AMG wins its first PCOTY with the incredible GT R Pro
Every car to have ever won MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year
We look back at 25 years of PCOTY, and 25 amazing cars
Everything you need to know about Performance Car of the Year 2021
This year’s PCOTY is one of the hardest fought, and most intriguing, in years. Here’s your one-stop introduction to the fastest award in the country.
Here is what goes on behind the scenes at PCOTY 2020
In between all the serious testing and fast driving was quite a bit of inconvenient truth, and stupidity
Porsche 992 911 Carrera S wins PCOTY 2020!
Another new generation of 911, another PCOTY win. Make that number 15 out of 24 for Stuttgart
Mercedes-AMG GT63 S becomes the PCOTY 2020 runner-up
Very much winning material, just not this year